Device for suspending battery-cradles.



E. GRUENFBLDT.'

DEYIGEIOR SUSPENDING BATTERY ORADLBS.

- APPLIUATIDN-I'ILED JAN. 23, 1908.

'Patented Dec. 1,1908.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

\"`.0MPAN'Y, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

EMIL GRpEN'E-ELDT, or cLEvELAii), onto, AssIGNoR To THE BAKER Enron.

Moron VEHICLE nirvrcn For: sUsPENnInG Barrena-essonne.

i no. 905,176.

To aZZtohomv/t may concern:

Be It known that I,` EMIL GRUENEELDT, a

i snliiect of the Emperor of Germany, residentof Cleveland, county of Cuyahoga, and State of Ohio, yhave invented a new and useful Improvement in Devices for Suspending Battery-Cradles, of which the following is a specification, the principle of the invention' being herein explained and the best Inode in which I have contemplated applying that f principle, so as to distinguish it from other 3 .My invention relates to from the frame.

inventions.

means for suspend-` ing, battery holders or cradlesv from the frames of electric. motor vessels, its object being to provide means whereby such holdor cradles may be readily mounted upon such frames and readily disinounted there-l from. I

The said invention consists of means hereinafter fully' described and particularly set forth in the claims.

"l`he annexed drawings andthe following description set forth in detail, certain' mechanism embodying the invention, the disclosed means constituting but one ofvarious me? `chanical forms in which Vthe principle of the invention may be applied.

Ain Said annexed drawings Figure I represents a plan' of a portion of an electric motor vehicle frame and a battery cradle mounted thereon after the nianner'of my invention. Fig. II represents a section of the frame rtaken upon the plane indicated by the line'Q-J), Fig. I, and showing the cradle mounted thereon in end elevation. Fig. III represents a perspective view, upon an enlarged scale, of the block which e'ects the interlocking of the parte, and forming a part of my said inventiom F ig. IV represents a plan of a portion of the frame shown in Fig. I, with the cradle removed, "and Fig. V represents a yplan ot the//cradle removed Upon the inner side ofthe side-bars A A of the frame and projecting inwardly therefrom is a series' of ingles or hangers A A.. These angles are secured to wooden `blocks A2 A2, Fig. II, which are boltedto the frame as shown. Upon theouter side of the sidebars B B of the cradle B and rojecting outwardly is secured a series ofp pairs of hangers B2 B2. The members of each pair are placed so that the hangers A, 'when the v Specification .of Letters Patent. Application led Jennery 23, 119135,: Serial No. 13,2 33.

Patented Dec; 1,V 1,808.

. cradle is in position, may be caused to pass between them, as shown in FigpI. Placed between each set of hangers B2 B2: and the corresponding hanger A of the trame is af holding block C preferably of wood. Upon the middle of the upper face'of such block is secured a metal plate c which therefore .forms two lateral seats c. The

llength ofI this plate is' made substantially equal to the distance between the han ers B2 B2 in each set, so that when the b ock is in position said hangers may rest in.the seatsc c. Upon each4 end of the lower face of the block are secured two metal platesc2 c2 forming an intermediate' seat c2. The distance between these two lates is 'made such that'a. hanger A may' e received in the seat c3. Olne' sllich'holding block ispir'- vided for each set off hangers A and B2 B? and when the cradle is supported the frame the said blocks are interposed between the hangers of the respective seats, as i1lus trated in the drawin s above described. Whenit is desired' to ismount the cradle, the latter is raised a distance equal to or slightly greater than the combined thicknesses of the lates c' and c2.. ,When thisl is done `the hol ing blocks C may be slid out in the longitudinal direction-'of the frame, Whereupon'the cradle may be lowered to the floor, hangersy A passing between the hangers B2.4 'I

Other modes of applyin the principle of my invention may be emp oyed, instead of the one explained, and change may be made as regards the mechanism herein disclosed, provided the means covered by any one of the following claims be employed.

I, therefore, particularly point out and distinctly claim as my invention r-f 1. 4In a device of the class described, the combination of a supporting frame, a receptacle Orcradle, said frame and cradle provided with a series of sets of hangers; and a plurality of removable'locking devices, ,one

such holding device being provided 'for each" such set of hangers.

2. In a device of the class described, the

jectingoutwardly, and sparate removable means for holding such projecting'means of botlt frame andcradle together 3; In a device vtit/:the classdescribed, the combination of ajframe, a receptaclemorcradie, means secured to said frame and proj ecting inwardly and means on said cradle projecting outwardly, and separate removable .means for holding such projecting means of both frame and cradle together against longitudinal displacement of. the cradle relatively to the frame.

4.' Ina device' of the class described, vthe combination of a supporting frame, a recep-v tacle or cradle, said frame and cradle pro-Y vided with a. series of sets of hangers; and a plurality of removable holding devices oper- Y- gether.

6.1`In a device of the cla'ss described, the

combination of-a frame, a receptacle or cradie, means gecuredto irame and projecting inwardly andmeans on said cradle. projecting outwardly, and a plurality of separate 'removable means operable independently of each other forholding such proj-ecti-ng means. of both. frame and cradle together against longitudinal displacement of the cradie relatively to the frame.

7. In a device ofthe class described, the

combination of a frame, a receptacle or cradle, means secured to vsaid frame and pro-v jecting inwardly and means on said cradle projecting outwardly, and separate removabl'emeans for holdingsuch projecting means of both frame. and cradle against longitudinal displacement-of the cradle relatively to the -frame and allowing upward displacement thereof.

8. In a device of the class described. the combination with two members comprising a frame and a receptacle or cradle, a series of angles formed or secured upon said mein.- bers, each series consisting of two angles formed orsecurcd upon the one of said two members and one angle formed or secured upon the other; a removable member 'adapted to be' placed between the two angles on the one hand and the one Aanale upon the other hand.. D

9. In a device of the class described. the

combination with' two members comprising a frame and a receptacle or cradle adapted to be'placed inside said frame, the one meniber provided with two projections intersect'- ing the space between it and the other meinber, the other provided with one projection' intersecting` such space and at points, when the frame 1s horizontal, not in the same transverse planes perpendicular to the plane rot'- said frame; of a separate holdingl device for securing such projections to cach other against longitudinal displacement relatively to each other.

10. In a device of the class described` the combination oit' a vehicle frame. a receptacle or cradle. said frame and cradle provided vwith a plurality of sets of hangers. and a plurality of removable blocks, one ot the latter being provided for each such set of hang ers, said blocks'adaptcd to hold the latter against longitudinal displacement and an ranged to be removable when` the cradle is lifted.

1l. In a device ot' the class described. the combination with a set of hangers secured respectively to a'support'ing and a supported member, each set consisting` of two hangers secured to one such member and one hanger secured to the other, ot' a block adapted io be interposed betweenthe two hangers on the one hand and the one hanger on the other hand. and provided with means for preventing displacement of said hangers horizontal lv.

"12. In a device`of the class described. the combination with a set of hangers secured respectively to a supporting and a supported member, each set consisting oi two hangers secured to one such .member and one hanger secured to the other` ot'a block iii-vided upon one side with a projecting portion forming two seats and upon the other side wilh two projections forming an intermediair aan the two hangers adapted to rest in said two seats and the one hanger adapted to rest in said one seat.

Signed by me, this 21st day of January. 1908.

EMIL GRUENFELDT. 

